Improvement in hames



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT D. BROWN, OF COVINGTON, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAMES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 4 I ,600, (lated February 16, 1864.

To all whom it may concern.;

Be it known that I, ROBERT D. BROWN, of Covington, Fountain county, Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Haines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description there- Of, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

This invention has for its Object a construction of hames which enables a single pair thereof to be expeditiously fitted to the neck of any horse.

Very many farmers and Others keeping sev eral horses are pecun'iarily unable to keep more than one or two sets of haines, and hence endeavor to make a single pair answer for several animals, little and big, an imperfect adjustment being sometimes attempted by letting Out Or drawing in the upper hame-strap. Such adjustment is, however, notoriously objectionable, because hames which have been let out7 no longer grasp the neck of the animal laterally, but hang suspended On its nape by the upper strap, so as to improperly compress the blood-vessels at that part, and so as tO bring the trace-hook so near the point of the shoulder as to obstruct the movement of thatjoint and engender swinney and other diseases.

Figure l represents a pair of hames illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the upper part of one of my improved hannes.

The bow or main portion A of each hame is made somewhat shorter than usual, and may be either of metal or of wood. B are the rings for the lower-haine strap.

O is my adjustable cap, constituting a metallic tube or socket, which fits and slides upon the top of the bow.

The rein-ring D, being made to screw into 'and through One side of the cap O and against the side of the bow A, serves the purpose of retaining the cap O to any desired position upon the bow, in addition tO its Ordinary function of holding the rein.

A strip Of brass, E, may be let into the bow to receive the point of the rein-ring.

F F are top rings for the upper hame-strap in buggy-harness.

G G are similar rings for wagon-harness.

For complete adjustability the lower end of the hame may have a cap, H, similar to that for the upper end, except that it will receive a greater curvature.

All the adjustments Of this hame can be made without loosening any part of the harness.

I claim- The cap C, provided with the screw D, in combination with theibow A, provided with the plate E, substantially as described.

1n testimony Of which invention I hereunto set my hand.'

ROBERT D. BROWN.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, OHAELEs L. FISHER. 

